[ale] Bellsouth DSL

[Jerald Sheets]

Ditto on the Speedfactory.

I deplore any ISP that requires me to use their POP3 and SMTP servers rther
than my own (I use Yahoo Mail and pay for the privilege).  

The guys at Speedfactory, from the day and night shift support people to the
networking guy to the billing people have just been stellar.  I called when
I lost my job, and they happily held my invoice until I got some money.  

They are always available, and do their best to provision the service you
want.

In comparison to Speedfactory, BellSouth looks like a 1990's dialup
provider.  There *IS* no comparison.

Jerald M. Sheets jr.
Sr. UNIX Systems Administrator
McKesson, Inc.
(404) 293-8762
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-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Mike
Murphy
Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2005 3:36 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] Bellsouth DSL

I was happy with them for the better part of 2.5 years. Then they blocked
port 25 *inbound*, so I shopped for someone else. Now I have the same
service from speedfactory, but on the rare occassion I do have a problem, I
can actually talk to someone who knows what they are doing. 
So, for me the switch was worth it.

Mike


Wesley Stevens wrote:
> Jim Popovitch wrote:
> 
>> I've been a long time customer of Comcast, and despite opinions 
>> expressed on this list, I decided to try out Bellsouth's DSL service.
>>
>> In short, I like it.  What I don't understand is why did I not have 
>> all the problems that others seemed to have had, or more 
>> interestingly what I would really like to know is why did my setup go 
>> so easy.  All I had to do was put the DLS filter in-line with my 
>> phone, connect a a RJ11 cable between the filter and the modem 
>> (Westell) and plug an ethernet cable from the modem into my linux 
>> laptop.  I then pointed my webbrowser at http://192.168.1.254 and 
>> configured my Bellsouth username and password before pressing the 
>> Connect button.  Immediately it pulled down an IP and associated 
>> info.  Since I wanted to attach the DSL line to my home network, via 
>> a switch port on my Linksys AP, I turned off the DHCP server on the 
>> Westell and changed it's internal static IP to 192.168.3.254.
>>
>> Why is that process so painful for all those people who call 
>> Bellsouth names?
>>
>> -Jim P.
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>    I been running bellsouth dsl for about 2 years now at 1st it took 
> about 2 months everything started to work. But when stuff started its 
> been good (ive been on better but thats when i lived in Fl.) just 
> recently i upgraded my service to top res grade it only took 3 days 
> after ordering over the net and about a week before it was a stable 
> connection. i think i rather be on speekeasy but my local dslam won't go
> any faster (i ask a repair guy that was working on it)    but to your 
> question i think its more about the service after that process.
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